Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Electro accordionist/laptop musician Andrea Parkins revels in both high and lo-tech electronic disruption even as she explores a delicate lyricism, stasis, and oblique allusion to genre tradition.
Three sets including electroacoustic guitar, sound effects, theremin, voice, bass, and more.
Performing music from their upcoming release on Undone Records
From the archives, with Raz Mesinai, Eyvind Kang, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Elliott Sharp, Andrea Parkins, Eugene Chadbourne, Marc Ribot and more.
The Project Room invites you to an intimate evening of music and film curated by composer/musician Rebecca Moore. Joined by her all-star ensemble Prevention of Blindness, the band will play a mixture of new songs and instrumentals while Joel Schlemowitz’s films cover the surrounding walls.
This marks the first live performance from Mesinai’s cult classic recording on BSI “The Unspeakable”.